Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 metre platform

The men's 10 metre platform, also reported as platform diving, was one of four diving events on the Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's 10 metre platform
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Klaus Dibiasi  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Richard Rydze  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Giorgio Cagnotto  Italy
← 1968
1976 →

The competition was split into two phases:

  1. Preliminary round (3 September)
    Divers performed seven dives. The twelve divers with the highest scores advanced to the final.
  2. Final (4 September)
    Divers performed three voluntary dives without limit of degrees of difficulty. The final ranking was determined by the combined score with the preliminary round.

Results

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Rank Diver Nation Preliminary Final
Points Rank Points Rank Total
  Klaus Dibiasi   Italy 338.25 1 165.87 4 504.12
  Richard Rydze   United States 302.16 5 178.59 1 480.75
  Franco Cagnotto   Italy 312.93 3 162.90 5 475.83
4 Lothar Matthes   East Germany 298.41 6 167.34 3 465.75
5 David Ambartsumyan   Soviet Union 314.31 2 149.25 8 463.56
6 Richard Earley   United States 287.94 12 174.51 2 462.45
7 Vladimir Kapyrulin   Soviet Union 296.40 7 162.81 6 459.21
8 Carlos Girón   Mexico 290.37 10 152.04 7 442.41
9 Michael Finneran   United States 289.80 11 140.67 11 439.47
10 Falk Hoffmann   East Germany 291.54 8 145.17 10 436.71
11 Donald Wagstaff   Australia 290.64 9 145.20 9 435.84
12 Aleksandr Gendrikson   Soviet Union 305.94 4 125.10 12 431.04
13 Jacques Deschouwer   France 287.04 13 did not advance
14 José Robinson   Mexico 284.58 14 did not advance
15 Porfirio Becerril   Mexico 282.57 15 did not advance
16 Karl-Heinz Schwemmer   West Germany 281.55 16 did not advance
17 Jakub Puchow   Poland 281.34 17 did not advance
18 Niki Stajković   Austria 280.29 18 did not advance
19 Junji Yuasa   Japan 276.00 19 did not advance
20 Ron Friesen   Canada 272.94 20 did not advance
21 Frank Dufficy   Great Britain 271.77 21 did not advance
22 Andrew Gill   Great Britain 268.68 22 did not advance
23 Wolfram Ristau   East Germany 268.59 23 did not advance
24 Bernd Wucherpfennig   West Germany 267.87 24 did not advance
25 Ion Ganea   Romania 265.83 25 did not advance
26 Diego Heñao   Colombia 264.27 26 did not advance
27 Scott Cranham   Canada 263.52 27 did not advance
28 Brian Wetheridge   Great Britain 262.59 28 did not advance
29 Kenneth Sully   Canada 262.26 29 did not advance
30 Klaus Konzorr   West Germany 260.01 30 did not advance
31 Héctor Bas   Puerto Rico 254.79 31 did not advance
32 Kenneth Grove   Australia 254.73 32 did not advance
33 Rudolf Kruspel   Austria 248.07 33 did not advance
34 Jorge Head   Spain 243.27 34 did not advance
35 Sandro Rossi   Switzerland 225.87 35 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ "Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics: Platform, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

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